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Niarchos plans to keep on building bigger ships on the theory that operating costs increase only slightly as capacity goes up. He talks of atomic-powered 100,000-tonners in the not-too-distant future. Present-day merchant fleets, Niarchos points out, are never too far from the financial reefs. In a bad year, a ship can lose more than half its value. In the best of times, merchantmen usually work ten years or more to pay off their owners' mortgages. Thinking of his heavily mortgaged fleet, Niarchos claims he is still a long way from blue water. Says...
...division of present-day Germany was described by Tillich as an "extremely dangerous situation." He said, "There is nothing but restlessness, cynicism and hopelessness in the German's concept of the future...
Since 1873, generations of Harvard-men have sacrificed study and sleep for the satisfying pleasures of producing one of the nation's best college dailies. Any present-day college or Radcliffe undergraduate will have an opportunity to follow in their footsteps, when the red doors of the Crimson open to them tonight...
...nonprofit, nonpartisan institution has had a profound effect on government and the economy, has helped shap-national policy under both Democratic and Republican administrations. Brookings' experts laid the groundwork for present-day government accounting procedures, worked out the present system of congressional apportionment, produced the first U.S. budget under Budget Director Charles Gates Dawes. The institution also serves as a lending library of specialized technical talent. Brookings' staffers and alumni of its graduate school have advised virtually every executive agency and congressional committee in Washington on subjects ranging from highways to health insurance. When the President...
...feeding schillings to the mechanical monsters. Current hits: Three Coins in the Fountain, Ko Ko Mo and I Love Paris (in the springtime). There are those who deplore the jukebox (which is known as "Musikautomat") as further evidence that civilization is in schrecklich shape. But Vienna's present-day songwriters (not a Strauss among them) are jazzing up older tunes for jukebox use and, in the process, are demonstrating that they can be fairly schrecklich on their own. Current sample...